Royal Secrets by Traci Hunter Abramson

Author:Traci Hunter Abramson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mormon, LDS, clean, fiction, romance, contemporary romance, secret, Royal Target, LDS suspense, adventure, Betsy Brannon Green, Saint Squad, hagardy, covenant, deseret book, Jennie Hansen
Publisher: Deseret Book Company
Published: 2017-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

“I hope I’m not interrupting,” Janessa said from the doorway of Stefano’s inner office.

“Not at all.” Stefano stood up and motioned to Alora, who was sitting beside him at the worktable in the corner of the room. “We’ve been staring at these ledgers all day, and I think we’re both ready for a break.”

“I’m sure if there are any problems in the books, Alora will find them. She’s a whiz when it comes to finances.”

Alora shook her head. “I don’t know about that.”

“She’s always been modest too.” Janessa motioned to the hall. “Stefano, Garrett and I need to speak to you for a minute.”

“I’ll be right back,” Stefano told Alora and then followed Janessa to his brother’s office. As soon as they were inside, he asked, “What’s going on?”

“You’re going to want to sit down for this.” Garrett settled back into his chair as soon as Janessa sat beside him. “First of all, Ambrose has disappeared.”

“What do you mean disappeared?” Stefano looked at Janessa. “I thought the CIA was tailing him.”

“They were.” Janessa looked at him apologetically. “Ambrose rented a boat earlier today. When the boat returned, he wasn’t on it.”

“What?”

“We think he spotted one of his tails,” she told him. “The agents did a thorough search of Medina and weren’t able to reacquire him. Our best guess is that he has left town, but there’s no way to be sure if he is getting ready to strike or if he has left the country.”

“Great,” Stefano muttered.

“There’s one more thing.” Janessa passed a copy of a simple floor plan of the chateau to him.

Stefano noticed the various marks on the page and shook his head in confusion. “What am I looking at?”

“All of these red dots indicate where listening devices were found here in the chateau,” Janessa told him. “According to the report that arrived in this morning’s pouch from the CIA, this technology requires some kind of transmitter to send the signals.”

“We already knew that.”

“Yes, but now we also know the range of how close the transmitter needs to be to the listening devices,” Garrett interjected. He tapped a finger on the floor plan where several rooms and sections of the hallway were shaded. “This is the only area in the chateau where the transmitter could have been hidden based on the range compared to the location of the bugs.”

Stefano studied the four rooms that were shaded and looked up at his brother. “Am I reading this right? These two are Janessa’s and Alora’s offices, and the other two are the security offices?”

“That’s right.” Garrett nodded. “Our best guess is that it was concealed somewhere in one of the hallway walls, probably during the renovations we did before the gala a few years ago.”

Stefano’s eyes narrowed. “Who was in charge of those renovations?”

“I’m not sure. Mother would probably know. Why?”

“Uncle Elam came by right before we started the renovations on his old office. Then when I came back to check on the workmen, there was a hole in the wall that I didn’t remember seeing before.

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